WORLD’S RECORD SWIM
ZEALAND ISLAND TO JUTLAND BANISH GIRL'S FEAT ' " —» Press Association By Telegraph—Copyright COPENHAGEN, August 9. (Received August 10, -at 10.15 a.in.) Jenny Kammorsagaard, a farmer’s daughter, aged 19, and weighing 15 stone, after a thirty-hours’ struggle with waves and currents in the Kattegat, swam from Zealand Island to Jutland, a distance of 88 kilometres. This is a world’s record. She wore stockings, a waterproof watcli, a bathing cap, and was greased all over. She subsisted on bot potatoes, soup, pigeon, tomatoes, ami bread and butter. Thousands cheered her on landing.
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Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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92WORLD’S RECORD SWIM Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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